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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by bluGill on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:10AM (#46512447)
> presumably China would still want to keep selling those products and would have an interest in avoiding destroying those factories

It has been hinted by people who might know something that Taiwan has rigged their factories to explode if China invades to ensure China can't get a hold of those factories. I'm not sure if it is true, but it wouldn't be hard to do (the hard part is ensuring the explosives don't go off for other reasons)

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by pc86 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:21AM (#46512597)
ASML can also disable much of the equipment remotely, from Europe. So even if the buildings aren't actually bombed (they likely would be though), someone presses a button a few thousand miles away and most of it gets bricked anyway.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by krior on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:49PM (#46515772)
Dunno if I would trust any remote-bricking-capability in an environment where electronic warfare saturates all communication channels.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by pc86 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:57PM (#46516813)
I agree, I've often wondered if this is more of a dead man's switch where a signal gets transmitted every X minutes or something and if the system doesn't get a signal in some much-longer-but-not-weeks timeframe everything goes kaput.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by Hizonner on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:19AM (#46513355)
Not to mention the number of random individuals, with enough access, who might want to sabotage them in those circumstances. And fuck knows what the Trump administration decides to bomb. And the general fog of war. And how delicate everything is.
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